R.E.M. Members Working With Producer Mitch Easter For First Time In 30+ Years (Spin)

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I haven’t familiarized myself with The Baseball Project, I don’t really follow baseball so my interest wasn’t that much. I did see an interview with Mike Mills where he did a song about getting Dale Murphy into the Hall of Fame, which was real fun to listen to & got my attention.

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I don’t know that much about baseball or baseball lore but that has never stood in the way of my enjoyment of the Baseball Project.

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From R.E.M. HQ -“The Baseball Project has released a new track called “Journeyman” from their forthcoming album “Grand Salami Time!” due out June 30 via Omnivore Recordings.”

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As mentioned on R.E.M. instagram, new music from The Baseball Project’s new album, Grand Salami Time!, “Disco Demolition”

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This song is great!

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Yeah, I really like it too!

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The Mike Mills song (“Stuff”) is worth listening to as well.

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Gave the album a listen today and enjoyed it. For some reason, Baseball Project have never really taken with me. But I’m gonna give them another go.

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Agreed that the Baseball Project never interested me, but this album has caught my ears.

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I just found out “Disco Demolition” Night was a real event, a Major League Baseball promotion that happened in July 1979.

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I remember it well. In those days, I sported a “Disco Sucks” t-shirt. However, it had nothing to do with racism or homophobia. I was a fan of rock n’ roll. I was also a naive teenager that had no clue of the implications of the shirt or the Disco Demolition. I’m still not a fan of disco but it’s just a preference, just like there are some other genres of music I’m not necessarily a fan of.

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I’m on a major McCaughey kick, after seeing Minus 5 and No-Ones last week. Maybe it’s that. Maybe not. But the new Baseball Project album is great. Looking forward to delving into the others.

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I know it’s credited solely to Mills, but Buck is all over it. Sounds like an R.E.M. demo!

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I have not mastered the quote function…

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I love the lyric lines… “It’s better to flash than boring instead” & “four on the floor was the sound of sedition…” I like some disco music of that era, and some annoyed me. Disco Inferno anyone? :mirror_ball: :laughing:

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I know nothing about baseball but love that the songs are all based on real baseball stories.

Can anyone help me out with the subject matter of 64 and 64? There’s a line that goes, “shot dead by Elliott Gould”. It’s making me look at Jack Geller in a whole new light…

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Journeyman would fit in well on an REM record (particularly with the Mills harmonies). More of a story of a person than a baseball song per se.

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This is what I’ve come up with, Elliott Gould played a character called Marlowe in the 1973 movie The Long Goodbye - “Kuhn said I was a bad guy, well, I was in the Long Goodbye
Ended up in a Mexican pool, shot dead by Elliot Gould”
I haven’t seen the movie, apparentely in the plot, Marlowe shoots Terry. Terry is character played by Jim Bouton who I believe was a renowned baseball player turned actor. Elliott Gould also likes sports.
I think the song is related to Jim Bouton.

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That’s fantastic! And plausible! Great work!